#Digital sentience the matrix how to#

We are inviting the technologies themselves to open up to greater possibility. Let us infuse it with spirit and compassion and intimacy. This portal gives us a space to claim Digital Intimacy for ourselves and transform a medium that is taken as alienating and communion destroying. We are offering an invitation to turn fate into destiny and create Digital Intimacy. Here at CIW we’ve talked a lot about that critique and believe that a creative emergent evolutionary solution is possible. There is so much coming at us lacking a hierarchy regarding which information needs to be taken seriously.įor a variety of reasons, digital reality today does not obviously serve virtue in the sense of depth nor aliveness nor proper communications and ethics between people. We envision social media interactions where it’s about developing virtue, character, and profound discipline.Īnother problem today is the difficulty people have discerning accurate information. These days you can’t find time to cry because you’re tweeting it and nothing is true unless you’ve made it appear in the social media. The intimacy of our interiors needs to kiss the world of the machines, penetrating and interpenetrating each other. We want flamers to become lovers with hearts aflame. We are turning sexing into an elevated form of exchange, creating forums with interaction containing subtlety, nuance, and genuine contact that wouldn’t have happened any other way. We are finding ways of investing the digital reality with spirit, compassion, intimacy, and love. While some critics think this is impossible, we disagree. We are calling for Digital Intimacy: an invitation to the evolution of love and consciousness through the world of technology which penetrates our everyday life. This is a powerful and legitimate critique, but it is only the beginning of the story. Are you really connected if you’re “Linked In”? Do you find yourself spending too much time “self-branding”?ĭigital tools are accused of undermining our intimacy with an alienating force which makes it difficult to connect to our center. A friend today may be taken to be a “Facebook friend”, but is this really a friend? There are new technologies in the world which are defining and dominating our lives in a thousand different ways. The Digital Intimacy portal addresses these challenges in constructive and provocative ways.Ĭonsider this. Today brings many new challenges to intimacy because we find ourselves rooted in a technological, functional, machine-based, digitized world. How do the “patterns that connect” – in the realm of spirit and heart and culture, inform the digital world that we are creating? We are here to insight an ethos in which the “dharma of the digital” is at the forefront of our quest for intimacy.

#Digital sentience the matrix how to#

In the Digital Intimacy we will meet face to face in a playful, artistic discourse about how to create new world of virtual intimacy. It is where we seek to articulate and embody both the eros and the ethos of the digital. The Digital Intimacy portal is meant to be a space to create….well…intimacy. We have stepped into that chasm inviting us to a new narrative of the digital. The gap between connection and authentic contact seems to be an ever widening chasm.Īre our Facebook friends really friends? Is their depth, commitment and meaning in our connections on line?ĭoes the virtual have virtue in its web of values? Can connection yield true contact? Can digital information and method of connecting birth new intimacy?Ĭan the virtual make us vulnerable in the best of ways? Never before in history have we been so “connected” yet desperately seeking contact. There is an ever more confusing terrain of gadgets and gizmos. And yet paradoxically the Web seems to bring with it a great loss of intimacy. Its very name – Web – means the very same. The World of the Web would seem to be the place for connection.